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James Gunn explains Marvel star’s surprise Superman cameo

Director says he needed someone who could fill the character’s ‘stature’

The Independent UK

Tom Cruise On Working With Jack Nicholson In A Few Good Men And Filming That Iconic Courtroom Scene: ‘You Work Towards Lightning In A Bottle’

Tom Cruise dropped "the truth" about his famous A Few Good Men Scene with Jack Nicholson

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The Fortress of Solitude: Every live-action incarnation of Superman's iconic ice hideout

As the newest Superman film hits theaters, we cast our X-ray vision back on every live-action incarnation of the Fortress of Solitude, from its 1978 debut to its 2025 return.

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“The only guitar I could ever play was the 125, but I wore them out – they were costing thousands to repair. They stopped making them around 1970; I was ready to stop playing”: George Thorogood on his “mutt” amp, and talking shop with Hound Dog Taylor

The 75-year-old – who’s not sure how he gets his sound – almost gave up playing when Gibson discontinued the ES-125. Now he says he’ll keep going until the guitar gives up on him

Guitar World

Damson Idris gets his love of smart clothes from his mother

Damson Idris has revealed how his love for "luxurious" fashion dates back to his mother dressing him in a suit to celebrate his birthday as a child.

BANG Premier

“I said to those guys, ‘I would like us to do something where you become Marlon Brando — where you can still be bad boys but there has to be an element of vulnerability’”: How producer Bob Ezrin added a new dimension to Kiss

"It was such a big departure for them," Ezrin says

MusicRadar

36 Of The Most Curiosity-Inducing Historical Photographs

Let's take a walk down memory lane where a collection of historical photographs tell the whole story without words.

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TV tonight: gripping heist thriller The Gold returns as the hunt for the Brink’s-Mat bullion heats up

A race against time for the Met as the underworld attempts to shift £26m of gold. Plus; Kiell Smith-Bynoe guest stars as an insufferable digital marketer in cosy crime charmer Death Valley

The Guardian - UK

Ocean With David Attenborough to Anora: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

A call to arms from the beloved naturalist as he passes his 99th birthday, and Sean Baker’s Oscar-winning treasure about a lap dancer who falls for an oligarch’s son. Plus: the controversial new Snow White!

The Guardian - UK

Tom Cruise says mastering movie magic is about more than acting

Speaking in London as he received a BFI fellowship, the actor praised Brando and Nicholson for knowing how to use ‘every tool’ of cinema

The Guardian - UK

'If I kissed some man, I'd cut my lips off': Terrence Howard on whyhe turned down Marvin Gaye biopic

Terrence Howard rejected the chance to play late music legend Marvin Gaye in a biopic because he refused to kiss another man.

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Val Kilmer was never afraid to be seen

Dead at 65, Kilmer spent his life in pursuit of wonderful things, even if it meant rubbing others the wrong way

Salon

Former Val Kilmer co-star remembers ‘spectacularly bleak and awful’ film

The Hollywood star played Montgomery in The Island Of Dr Moreau, which turned out to be one of the biggest flops of the 1990s.

Evening Standard

David Thewlis recalls ‘spectacularly bleak’ five months he spent with Val Kilmer

‘I spent the most bizarre five months of my entire life with Val Kilmer,’ the ‘Harry Potter’ star said

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Val Kilmer, 'Top Gun' and Batman star with an intense approach, dies at 65

Val Kilmer has died at age 65

The Guardian - UK

Val Kilmer, star of Top Gun, Batman Forever and The Doors, dies aged 65

Known for his roles in Batman Forever, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and Tombstone, the prolific actor’s cause of death was pneumonia

Salon

Matt Dillon steps into Brando’s shoes

Dillon discusses Brando’s influence, Maria Schneider’s trauma and the role of intimacy coordinators in filmmaking

The Conversation

How to make a political Oscars speech that doesn’t flop – according to rhetorical theory

So, it’s happened. You’re on stage, Oscar statue in hand, facing Hollywood’s finest and millions of viewers. You could keep it simple – thank your agent, your co-stars, your dog. Or you could use this moment to say something that matters.

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Francis Ford Coppola reveals the unexpected reason The Godfather became a classic

The Oscar-winning director says it wasn’t the mob violence or Marlon Brando’s performance that made the 1972 film a hit – but something far more domestic

The Conversation

Why Hollywood is finally telling a different kind of age-gap romance story

The ageist and sexist trope of the cougar, milf, or Mrs Robinson – a desperate older woman pursuing a relationship with a younger, less interested man – is being challenged by a spate of Hollywood movies pairing older women with younger men.

The Independent UK

How cinema helped villainise the bald man

LET’S UNPACK THAT: In his new action movie ‘Flight Risk’, Mark Wahlberg plays a villain – and you can tell because his character is balding. It’s the latest in a long line of films that uses an absence of hair as a visual cue for evil, writes Chris Edwards –…

The Guardian - UK

Marlon Brando fury at ‘feeling like a freak’ among revelations in new book of Hollywood secrets

Brando, Ava Gardner, Anita Ekberg and other A-listers are featured in a memoir about the glamour of the 1950s film industry

Marie Claire

Ben Affleck reportedly gifted Jennifer Lopez an extremely sweet Christmas present

Marie Claire

Ben Affleck Gave Jennifer Lopez the Sweetest Christmas Gift

The former couple exchanged gifts in Los Angeles ahead of the holiday.

The Guardian - US

The Godfather Part II at 50: Francis Ford Coppola’s sprawling masterpiece

After the recent release of his misbegotten saga Megalopolis, the anniversary of his crime drama sequel serves as a perfect reminder of the director’s abilities

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